June 23, 2005

Shopzilla Opens zLabs Tech Preview Site & Debuts Robozilla Shopping Service

Shopzilla zLabs is a new technological showcase area opened by shopping search engine Shopzilla. Now featured is Robozilla, a shopping search engine using the Shopzilla database but where results are said to be organized and clustered in a completely automated way. I take that to mean that unlike Shopzilla, there's no human intervention to ensure a product or merchant is in the right category. Want to compare? Here's the luggage category at Shopzilla versus Robozilla. At a quick glance, I suppose the Robozilla one feels a little better. The main point is that if the results are pretty good, the automation will help Shopzilla add more merchants and products efficiency but not lose relevancy. At least, that's the press pitch. More details from the company's press release: Shopzilla Showcases Technological Innovations with Establishment of zLabs.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at June 23, 2005 8:37 AM